Hey, if we have to be bothered by dealing with all of the spam, etc., then we should at least have some fun with it.

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

This post was moved from the December Suspensions & Bannings Thread. This is the appropriate thread for discussion relative to S&B's. Please leave the actual S&B threads for mods and admins to post in. Thanks.

User:lilies34 (124.6.171.232 Philippines)Rules violation: Attempt to post signature link spam in the FAC and Book Club subforumsModerator action: Permanent ban: 4January 2008Comments: I got you this for Christmas:

Nice.

Your work?

"So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams." -GaimanArchBoston

"Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how." -- Edward T. McMahon, The Conservation Fund

When someone gets zapped with the banhammer, does that preclude all future access to Cyburbia? I am wondering if the subjects of the ban postings get to view and enjoy their stardom.

They can still visit the site and see all the threads and posts that unregistered visitors can see, but of course they can't post, send private messages, or do any other fun things. A message explaining why they were banned will be displayed above the page header. Despite this, some still try to post messages; they'll see an error message if they click on the "Reply" or "New thread" buttons.

We announce the bannings because:

1) It's fun.
2) We want other Cyburbians to know what we're doing to keep the site free of spam.
3) It's a service to other forum operators, many of which investigate new users by searching for their usernames and IP numbers. Cyburbia's ban threads are usually near the top of search results.

Banned for a month, huh? Why not wait a few weeks and you can ban me on my birthday again???

Everyone is... (your name is instereted in that spot when you look at the post. *Check the day)

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine Common Sense.

Anonymous bannings

Seems like Dan just want's to kick off people off cyburbia for no reason.

I am extremely pissed. None of my posts since I joined have been offensive or out of line (or at least no one has suspended me yet). I put up with enough bullshit as a planner, and will not put up with it in a forum.